A rare species of elephant was endemic to the island of Malta. First documented by Hanno the Navigator, and mentioned periodically by chroniclers such as Aristotle, the animal became important in local culture in 1565, when one's trumpeting alerted the island's defenders to an invasion by the Ottoman Turks. This article is a . You can help My English Wiki by expanding it.
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